they do beare against Christe Iesus, whome their forefathers did crucifie
(for Iewes they are[136], as histories do witnesse, and they them selues
confesse) do this day make plaine warre against all true professors of his
holie gospell. And howe blindlie and outragiouslie the frenche king, and
his pestilent prelates do, fight against the veritie of God, the flaming
fiers, which lick vp the innocent blood of Christes membres, do witnesse,
and by his cruel edictes is notified and proclaimed[137]. And yet to these
two cruell tyrannes (to France, and Spain I meane) is the right and
possession of England and Scotland apointed. But iust or laufull shall
that possession neuer be, till God do chaunge the statute of his former
lawe: whiche he will not do for the pleasure of man. For he hath not
created the earth to satisfie the ambition of two or three tyrannes, but
for the vniuersall seed of Adam[138]: and hath apointed and defined the
boundes of their habitation to diuerse nations, assigning diuers countries
as he him selfe confesseth, speaking to Israel in these wordes[139]: You
shal passe by the boundes and limiter, of your bretheren the sonnes of
Esau, who dwell in mount Seir. They shall feare you. But take diligent
hede, that ye shewe not your selues cruell against them. For I will geue
you no part of their land. No not the bredth of a foote. For mount Seir I
haue geuen to Esau to be possessed. And the same he doth witnesse of the
sonnes of Lot[140], to whom he had geuen Arre to be possessed. And Moses
plainlie affirmeth, that when the almightie did distribute, and diuide
possessions to the gentiles, and when he did disperse, and scatter the
sonnes of men, that then he did apoint the limites and boundes of peoples,
for the nomber of the sonnes of Israel. Wherof it is plain[141], that God
hath not exposed the earth in pray to tyrannes, making all thing laufull,
which by violence and murther they may possesse, but that he hath apointed
to euery seuerall nation, a seuerall possession, willing them to stand
content (as nature did teache an ethnik[142] to affirme) with that
portion, which by lotte and iust meanes they had mioyed. For what causes